Re: Using SuSE9.1 software to upgrade X?
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 03:21, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> Hi all,
> I got SuSE 9.1 professional edition and aliened some of its GUI packages to
> produce .deb packages. These packages were specifically X-related since I
> wanted a better GUI than that provided by woody 3.0r2. This most especially
> applies to gnome which I want to upgrade to 2.4 that I find in SuSE. I was
> not successful in my quest and would like some advise. Thanks.
Well that is about the worst way to accomplish that I've ever heard of :)
Try to find a backport of gnome for woody (look on backports.org)
or
Use sarge, it has gnome 2.6, and is going stable sometime soon anyway
there may be other backports of gnome to woody, look around
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